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Originally Posted by Bjarki Dalsgarð  Well being a half long time aquintance of Wulfric he decided to introduce me here, thinking it would be a nice thing for me to be around similar nutcases as me(little did he know about my true motives). I joined in, made a scene of sorts I guess. And since then I have been prowling the dark corners here.
I find this forum rather intersting, but since english is my third language(I sometime think it is my fourth or fifth) some of teh uber long disscussion posts, which are interesting and all, just make me loose the track of waht is going on, so I'm just posting in hte less serious threads so far, or the less long post threads if you could say taht.
as for my beliefs, I don't believe in any established religion and neither any unestablished ones whoopp made sense eh?
But my visit here, is like all mortal life, it will end at some point.
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Still don't regret it, convinced you'd like a good deal of the stuff on here if only it where in english
I should give my reason for being here. Think I went over it a bit in my intro thread but that was some time ago, so I should re-introduce myself a bit.
Found this place on Wikipedia, looking up this 'Agnostic' line of thought which I was eager to find more about after a bit of confusion.
I was raised an atheist, a fact I am VERY happy about, with atheist parents, an Anglican education (Anglican church primary school in the UK) and a Methodist grandma. I was happily and devoutly an atheist till I finished high school, which is when I suddenly felt an odd need to explore religions (much to my own horror). I've always found it impossible to approach the major monotheistic religions as as far as I can tell they all view us (homosexuals) as at worst an abomination and at best poor, mislead fools who need help. I got put off new-age wiccan type things by an abundance of... interesting people/books/websites creating top-grade high fantasy which was very fun to read but not something I could ever accept as anything other than fantasy. I then drifted more towards the more reconstructive forms of neo-paganism, in my case the Norse/Germanic variety or Asatru, but after a number of run ins with people I'd probably describe as Nazis (not that they would be willing to admit it) I was left pondering what I actually believed.
I've come nowhere close to even glimpsing the 'truth', if such a thing even exists. I have begun to see that the wild unrealities religions put forward aren't to be taken as literal truths, and that they simply serve as vessels for 'higher truths' and details of human nature, and that basically there is a marked difference between theology and religion. I'm currently doing an introductory course into Buddhism at university as part of my history degree, focussing mainly on core doctrine and the early monastic order in India. Buddhism has been interesting to me for some time now, since we had a nun speak at our high school, and I encountered traces of it studying Japanese a couple of years back (mainly Mahayana varieties).
Bah! methinks I am beginning to ramble, so I'll just hive a wave to Bjarki and go back to the shadows.
